This Everest season, Karl Egloff and Tyler Andrews will try speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa holds the record, set in 1998, but not ...

From the camp you look directly up the North Col, but what really dominates the view from ABC is the Northeast shoulder of Everest with its famous Pinnacles. From the ABC Camp at 21,300 feet ...

While there are many discovered and named climbing routes on Everest, two routes are most commonly climbed: The South Col route starting from Nepal, and the Northeast Ridge Standard, or The North ...

The North Ridge of Everest was clear and bright even before sunrise. We reached the col at 5 am, a fantastically beautiful scene; and we looked across into the West Cwm at last, terribly cold and ...